Month: February 2015

There will be a fan bus going to wrestling tomorrow, February 26th. Plenty of room for adults or students to sign up. Contact Nancy @ 732-7395. Cost is $12. Leaving 8:30 AM from front of high school. You will need to buy admission ticket at Xcel Center.

The K-3 team traveled to Waseca today and brought home 3rd place. We were able to defeat Adrian, Faribault, and Pine Island while losing to GMLOKS. The hard work these guys are putting in shown through today. Great job boys!

A special treat for tomorrow night’s youth practice- the varsity will be in the wrestling room to be introduced and hopefully can stay to show some moves and help lead practice. 4th through 6th graders are welcome to come to the early practice to take advantage of this opportunity as well. Come with questions and learn how these guys became the best of Section 1A!

The full schedule for State team and individual is here. The team will wrestle their first dual at 11:00 AM on Thursday at the X. Go cheer them on in person, there is no other experience quite like it.

State wrestling and Mat Rat t-shirts are for sale.

Upcoming Events:

Monday- Practice. PreK-3rd at 5:45. 4th-6th at 6:45 but arrive early to meet varsity wrestlers.
Thursday- Watch Cougar team at the X.
Friday/Saturday- Watch Cougar individuals at the X.
Sunday- Waseca individual tournament

ZM State Wrestling shirts are in production…they will be on sale Monday, February 23rd through Bev Prodzinski @ the high school. We will also have them available on Monday night during elementary practice & the booster club meeting. A LIMITED number of shirts will be for sale @ the section tournament tomorrow & Saturday. Shirts are $15.

A block of 20 rooms has been held at the Clarion Hotel in South St Paul for Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26th and 27th. The rooms will need to be reserved before Thursday of this week.

The Clarion is working on getting us a 12-15 passenger van that we can use to shuttle back and forth from the hotel to the Xcel. They have a full complimentary breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausage, waffles, cereals, etc. There is also a hospitality room available for our use for a total of $100 for both nights, that’s $100 off of the regular price if we’d like to chip in for that. If we do use the room, we will need to bring our own plates, utensils, some power strips, etc, they only supply the room.

The cost is $114/night for the king suites which have a king bed and a full sleeper sofa, or $109/night for the double and the king rooms.

Please call the Clarion at 651-455-3600 to secure your room before Thursday, Feb. 19th. The rooms are held under Zumbrota-Mazeppa Wrestling.

Just a fun tidbit, this is the place where Dan and I had our wedding reception 21+ years ago!

They did it!!! The Cougars earned a trip to the state tournament! The Cougs met Dover-Eyota in the semi-finals, winning 48-18 to send them to the finals vs rival Kenyon-Wanamingo. In a very intense match-up, the Cougars pulled off the victory 27-26.

Thank you, Cougar Fans, for coming out to cheer them on! What a showing of teamwork & school spirit…it was an amazing & memorable day!!!